Fine Arts
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Rethinking African Art and Culture
Discussing Content and Impact of a CAA Panel
By: - Sep 13th, 2025During the era of Colonialism African nations were ruled by Europeans. This occupation resulted in the looting of some 90% of traditional African art and culture. In recent years German museums have returned tons of Benin Bronzes to NIgeria. The Museum of Fine Arts was pressured to return 34 works loaned to them as eventual gifts by collector Robert Owen Lehman. In a complex negotiation he nullified the agreement but the museum has retained and displayed five works. Noah Smalls of Williams College Art Museum helped to organize “Toward an Inclusive Framework: (Re)Building Black Art Histories in Academe, the Art Market, and Beyond,” for the 2025 College Art Association Conference. With Robert Henriquez we met for lunch to discuss these issues.
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Elaine Buckholtz Spectacle
Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
By: - Sep 09th, 2025Spectacle is a visual experiential exhibition. Elaine Buckholtz, a Light Installation Artist with a 25-year career in Lighting Design, has worked with artists such as Meredith Monk and Merce Cunningham.
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What's New at MFA
Winslow Homer Opens November 2
By: - Sep 04th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced its lineup of 2025–2026 exhibitions, including Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor, a rare display of light-sensitive works that opens November 2. I
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Joe Caruso: Walking Among the Trees
HallSpace Dorchester Ma
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025In these works, Caruso reminds us that beauty is not rare or remote – it is present all around us, waiting in the texture of a leaf or even in the smallest twig. His prints ask us to observe more closely, to trust our own senses, and to find meaning in quiet, unassuming details; if we are willing to look!
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Years After, Years Before by Michael Geschwer
Mario Diacono Gallery
By: - Sep 03rd, 2025The paintings on display are inspired by the epic poems The Odyssey, by Homer and Metamorphoses, by Ovid. Geschwer’s idea that mythology, dreams, and art operate within the same language system is at the core of his imagery. In his images, Geschwer makes use of classical painting methods and an interior pictorial language, often integrating art history iconography and verbo-visual elements. The resulting mysterious compositions deliver to the viewer the underlying archetypal messages of antiquity.
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Olivier Meslay Resigns from Clark Art Institute
Effective July 2026
By: - Sep 02nd, 2025Olivier Meslay, the Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute, will step down from his leadership role in July 2026, concluding a decade of change and growth that has seen the Clark flourish in international stature and engagement. Meslay, a widely respected curator and art historian, will return to his native France to pursue a variety of independent projects.
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Tabitha Vevers at Boston's Ellen Miller Gallery
Flesh Memories, Remembered
By: - Aug 30th, 2025Ellen Miller Gallery opens the fall season with Tabitha Vevers: Flesh Memories, Remembered, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Vevers began Flesh Memories during a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 1993 and later expanded the series at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
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Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time
Clark Art Institute
By: - Aug 24th, 2025Of mixed heritage Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) endured a lifetime of rejection by his father, racism and adversity. To make a living the young sculptor created portraits of wealthy patrons. His single mother Léonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of Noguchi's work, did her best to encourage his decision to be an artist. Today he is regarded as among the finest of his generation. The Clark Art Institute is displaying 32 pieces as Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time
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Re-Inventing Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum
Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Peter Littlefield Collaborate
By: - Aug 20th, 2025Gabrielle saw Judy as a fighter. She's a witch and also a pissed off teenager. It was Gabrielle's idea that a beast should attack Judy, who strangles it. She skins it with her teeth and takes its power (figure 4). “After blood-stained clothing was found, it was reported that Judy was killed by a beast. But in a fit of rage, she strangled it, gutted and skinned it with her teeth. Then she cooked it. She was stuffed with meat and took a nap.”
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Sophia Ainslie: Woven
Launches Fall Season for Boston's Gallery NAGA
By: - Aug 19th, 2025The work lives between abstraction and representation, woven from personal and cultural threads. I am interested in hybridity - how different visual languages can inhabit the same space. There is friction, but also connection. The paintings become a weaving of self and story, an attempt to make sense through making form, the experience of being shaped by multiple places and the ongoing search for coherence in layered identities.
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Christine McCarthy Worked Wonders
Director of Procvincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Aug 15th, 2025After several years at the Institute of Contemporary Art,. at 35, Christine McCarthy was ready to move on. The Provincetown Art Association and Museum was in desperate need. Taking an initial 50% salary cut she took the job in 2001 only with a commitment from the board for change. She raised $8 million for expansion and renovation. Today PAAM is thriving under her leadership while the once quaint and affordable fishing village on the Lower Cape is no longer what it used to be.
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MASS MoCA Programming
Through December
By: - Aug 13th, 2025MASS MoCA announces new programming through December 2025, including the opening of exhibitions Jimena Sarno: Rhapsody and Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE, concerts by Chuwi and Harold López-Nussa and plenty of opportunities to experience the museum for free including a celebration of Día de los Muertos, Open Studios, and an after-hours Family Night. FreshGrass | North Adams, the campus-wide festival of roots and bluegrass music, kicks it all off with the best in the genre.
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Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy
Gloucester's Jane Deering Gallery
By: - Aug 11th, 2025Steps from the Cape Ann Museum, currently closed for renovation, is the Jane Deering Gallery. Opening on September 6 is Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy. A commonality is the studio as a place for solace and creativity deflecting the ongoing barrage of bad news.
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Heavenly Earth
At Manship Artists Residency
By: - Aug 11th, 2025Curated by Manship Artists Sharon Bates and Donna Hassler, our biennial exhibition Heavenly Earth includes some 70 pieces installed throughout the Starfield landscape and inside the Manship Barn Studio. The thirteen juried artists have responded with a range of compelling works that reflect both the thematic prompt and the natural and cultural significance of this historic setting. Work by Laraine Cicchetti is also presented in her memory.
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Dana C. Chandler, Jr. Artist and Activist at 84
Protested MFA and Founded AAMARP at Northeastern University.
By: - Aug 09th, 2025Artist and activist Dana C. Chandler, Jr. ( (April 7, 1941 – June 9, 2025) was the foremost Boston African American artist of his generation. Implementing change he got things done. As Edmund Barry Gaither, director of the National Center for African American Artists and MFA adjunct curator put it "Dana shook the tree and we harvested the fruit."
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Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard University Art Museums
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025In the 1960s I met Edna Andrade several times when she traveled from Philadelphia to bring new work to the East Hampton Gallery in New York. The gallery was know for Op Art which describes her work at the time. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static presents a selection of drawings recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by the artist’s estate, this exhibition emphasizes the central role of drawing as well as interdisciplinary exploration in her art and in modernist movements of the 20th century.
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A Room of Her Own: British Women at Clark Art Institute
Epic Struggle of Emerging Artists Between the Wars
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025Celebrating twenty-five women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945, the Clark Art Institute presents A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945 featuring 87 paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which they used to further their artistic ambitions, including their rooms, homes, studios, art schools, clubs, and public exhibition venues.
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The Resurrection of Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum
An Installation by Gabrielle Barzaghi & Peter Littlefield
By: - Jul 31st, 2025A radio play, The Beginning of the End (of Judy Rhines) by Peter Littlefield, accompanies the installation. The play is a mystery set in the 1940s. Judy Rhines is a secretary, until one day, losing her job and just about everything else, she learns the ways of a witch
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Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Jul 22nd, 2025Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.
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Fred Wilson Reflections
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jul 09th, 2025Fred Wilson has gained widespread recognition for his groundbreaking artistic practice, which challenges dominant assumptions about history and culture. Working across a range of media—including sculpture, installation, painting, and glass—Wilson is best known for his conceptual interventions that expose the ways museums, archives, and institutions shape our understanding of the past. By reframing cultural narratives and recontextualizing objects, often drawn from historical collections or everyday life.
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Gabielle Munter at the Guggenheim
First NY Museum Exhibition in Thirty Years
By: - Jul 08th, 2025Gabrielle Münter was a critical figure in the advancement of modernism in early twentieth-century Europe. Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments.
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Vincent Valdez at MASS MoCA
Contemporary Social Realism
By: - Jul 06th, 2025A second generation Mexican American, Victor Valdez, was a prodigy who with a mentor was painting public murals at the age of 10. Now at mid career the remarkable artists is the subject of a riveting retrospective at MASS MoCA. It features a 30' panorama of hooded Ku Klux Klan members.
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Provincetown Artists: An Oral History
Spectacular Nature Inspired Generations of Leading Artists
By: - Jun 25th, 2025Artists came to study with the renowned teachers Charles Hawthorne, E. Ambrose Webster then later Henry Hensche and Hans Hofmann. The Provincetown Art Association was founded in 1914 and thrives under current director Christine McCarthy. The book includes essays and interviews from the 1980s through the present. Major artists, galleries and movements are vividly profiled. The summer long Forum '49 workshopped the emergence of abstract expressionism. In the 1950s the small but seminal Sun Gallery showcased 100 emerging artists. It was followed by the influential Long Point Gallery. Meet the whimsical conceptual artist Jay Critchley who has raised millions for charity. Much has changed but this book focuses on a golden age on Cape Cod.
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Gloucester's Cosmos Gallery
Assemble 1 Features Four Artists
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025Assemble I also celebrates the limitless nature of collage across two- and three-dimensional forms, with diverse textures, materials, and execution styles. Each of our artists offers a distinct, inventive vision. Brad Greenwood, Los Angeles, merges his superb drawing skills with collage, placing the erotic fox often into the mix. Hans Pundt is our local, prolific collage artist of all mediums. His COSMOS Gallery window display welcomes all into this special world.
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Provincetown Arts Magazine
40th Anniversary Issue
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025This 40th Anniversary Issue features exclusive interviews with poet Major Jackson, by poet and author Nick Flynn, and painter Joe Diggs, interviewed by writer and artist Andre van der Wende.
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